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Trump says King will be ‘very safe’ during US visit after security talks
Posted on with No CommentDonald Trump has said King Charles III will “be very safe” during his state visit to the US, which is due to begin later on Monday. Further security talks took place between the White House and Buckingham Palace after a … Read more →
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Legon loses Former Vice Chancellor, George Benneh
Posted on | CommentA former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Emeritus Prof. George Benneh, has passed on. The 87-year-old died on Thursday at his East Legon residence in Accra. The news was confirmed by a family spokesperson who indicated that funeral … Read more →
BBC banned in China
Posted on | CommentIn an apparent tit-for-tat move, BBC World News has been banned from airing in China, according to a statement from China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) on Thursday. The announcement comes one week after Ofcom, the British media regulator, … Read more →
Relocation of traders from Takoradi Market Circle commences on February 15
Posted on | CommentThe leadership of the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) has expressed its readiness to relocate traders at the Central Business District of Takoradi market circle. The traders are being relocated to a temporal structure to enable the reconstruction works on … Read more →
Tomato transporters on strike over highway attacks
Posted on | CommentThe prices of tomatoes are expected to go up in the coming days because Tomato Traders and Transporters Association is on strike, claiming the government has failed to provide them with security to Burkina Faso. The association says four of their … Read more →
73 Students, 9 staff test positive for coronavirus in Eastern Region
Posted on | CommentAt least 73 students have tested positive for Coronavirus in the Eastern Region. The Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, made this known to the media at a press briefing held in Accra on Tuesday, … Read more →
6 persons to contest Council of State election in Western Region
Posted on | CommentSix candidates have presented themselves for election in the upcoming Council of State polls slated for Friday, February 12, 2021, in the Western Region. The six, has one female, Mrs Eunice Jacqueline Buah, a 56-year-old businesswoman who represented the Region … Read more →
New Ebola case detected in eastern DRC
Posted on | CommentA new case of Ebola has been identified near the city of Butembo in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country’s health ministry has announced. A woman was found with symptoms of the deadly virus in the town … Read more →
PHOTOS: Monkey delivered of a baby through C-section at Kumasi Zoo
Posted on | CommentA mona monkey at the Kumasi Zoological Gardens has given birth to a baby male primate through a C-section. The surgery was conducted by Dr Meyir Y. Ziekah, a veterinary doctor and manager of the Kumasi Zoo. This was after … Read more →
Judgment day for murdered Taadi girls set for March 5
Posted on | CommentThe Sekondi High Court has set March 5, 2021 as judgment day in the murder case involving two Nigerian nationals, Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, who have been accused of killing the four missing Takoradi Girls. The court presided over by Justice … Read more →
Fire guts Golden Angel Nursery School at Madina
Posted on | CommentA section of Golden Angel Nursery School at Madina Social Welfare in Accra has been destroyed by Wednesday evening fire, eyewitnesses confirm. Eyewitnesses say the blaze which began around 9pm may have started from a carpentry shop close to the school. … Read more →
Tadi girls murder: Human skull, bones found on ‘kidnapper’s’ tablet
Posted on | CommentThe Chief State Attorney Prosecuting the case involving the kidnapping and subsequent murder of the four girls in Takoradi revealed yesterday that photographs of a human skull and some bones were found in the gallery of the tablet retrieved from … Read more →
18 Passengers killed in crash at Buipe (PHOTOS)
Posted on | CommentInformation gathered indicates that 18 passengers have died in a vehicular crash at Buipe in the Central Gonja district of the Savannah region. Sixteen of the deceased passengers, 12 men, 3 female adults and a girl died on the spot. … Read more →
DISTURBING PHOTO: 16yr old stabbed to death
Posted on | CommentKojo Appiah, a 16 years old boy has been allegedly stabbed to death by his best friend Nyamekye Beckham, 19. The tragic incident occurred on 1st February 2021 after a brawl ensued between the two at Abuakwa-Sepaaase in the Atwima … Read more →
7 Kwesimintsim Hospital workers test positive for COVID-19
Posted on | CommentSeven staff of the Kwesimintsim Hospital in the Effia Kwesimintsim Municipal Assembly in the Western Region of Ghana have tested positive for COVID-19. According to Felix Kesse, the Hospital Administrator who revealed this to Journalists, the victims are being managed … Read more →
Ghana’s Economy picks up
Posted on | CommentGROWTH HAS picked up in the domestic economy since the sharp contraction in the second quarter due to the novel coronavirus, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has indicated. A recent Monetary Policy Committee press release issued by the central bank, … Read more →
UK’s COVID-19 variants spreading faster in Ghana – GHS
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Health Service (GHS) says the new Covid-19 variants from the United Kingdom (UK) are spreading faster and widely among the Ghanaian population, with higher disease burden. The GHS says the trend of the spread of the UK variants … Read more →
COVID-19: Ridge Hospital’s ICU running out of oxygen
Posted on | CommentThe COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge, is running out of oxygen. This is as a result of increasing number of critical care and severe cases of COVID-19 reporting at the Facility. COVID-19 Case … Read more →
Ghana’s Covid-19 deaths now 424
Posted on | CommentDeaths linked to Coronavirus in Ghana have increased from 416 to 424. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) made this known to the media on Tuesday, February 2, 2021. Director General of GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, who addressed the media from … Read more →
FDA approves first herbal medicine for clinical trial on Covid-19 treatment
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) together with the National Medicine Regulatory Agency (NMRA) has approved a herbal medicine Cryptolepis Sanguinolenta locally known as Nibima for clinical trials for the treatment of Covid-19. In a statement from the FDA, … Read more →
Ghana’s debt stock hits GHc 286b
Posted on | CommentGhana’s total debt stock has increased from GHS274.1 billion in September 2020 to GHS286.9 billion as at November 2020, according to the Central Bank. This means that government spent about GHS12.8 billion between September and November last year. The data released … Read more →
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